Graeme Caughley Travelling Fellowship

Status

Nomination for the 2020 round will open early in 2019.

Details

The Fellowship commemorates the work of Dr G.J. Caughley, FAA in ecology and wildlife management. Dr Caughley was a chief research scientist with the CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology, Canberra, until his death in February 1994. The Fellowship is financed through the generosity of his friends and colleagues.

The inaugural Fellowship was in 1996. The Fellowship is offered every two years. Up to $7,000 (GST exempt) is offered.

The purpose of the Fellowship is to enable ecologists resident in Australia or New Zealand to share their expertise by visiting scientific centres in countries outside of the Fellow's own country to deliver lectures.

The Australian Academy of Science encourages nominations of female candidates and of candidates from a broad geographical distribution.

The Academy does not, in general, have the resources to offer support to partners and children to accompany an awardee of a travelling fellowship or scholarship, but will on a case by case basis and subject to the availability of funds, consider support for a carer to accompany an infant if this allows the carer to accept the award.

Eligibility

The Fellow will be an ecologist resident in Australia or New Zealand. Preference will be given to an applicant who indicates an interest in population ecology of wildlife and its scientific management.

Apply

Revist this website in early 2019 for application details.

Awardees

2018—G. Nugent: travel to Canada, Mexico, Spain and the USA

2016—M. Letnic: to travel to the University of California, Los Angeles, Oregon State University, the University of Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park Center for Resources